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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!marsh!colin From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) Subject: IDE HARD WRITE ERRORS PLEASE HELP ME Message-ID: <colin.714197827@marsh> Keywords: IDE ERRORS Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager) Organization: Curtin University of Technology Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:17:07 GMT Lines: 21 Hi, My setup: 386DX 33MHz AMI BIOS (04/09/90) fd0: 1.44MB fd1: 1.2MB RAM: 4M wd0: MAXTOR 7040 AT (40MB IDE) wd1: MAXTOR 7040 AT (40MB IDE) Two Questions: 1) wd1 has three areas that get hard write errors. What do I do? 2) My disktab entries for the drives reserve 5 cylinders on each drive for bad sector mapping. I read that one shouldn't use bac144 with IDE drives. Does that mean that I don't need to reserve the 5 cylinders? advthanksance (thanks in advance) Colin ------ colin@cs.curtin.edu.au